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Epigraph (literature)
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In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document, monograph or section or chapter thereof.[1] The epigraph may serve as a preface to the work; as a summary; as a counter-example; or as a link from the work to a wider literary canon,[2] with the purpose of either inviting comparison or enlisting a conventional context.[3]
A book may have an overall epigraph that is part of the front matter, or one for each chapter.
- ^ "Epigraph". University of Michigan. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
- ^ "Definition of Epigraph". Literary Devices. 24 October 2013. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
- ^ Bridgeman, Teresa (1998). Negotiating the New in the French Novel: Building Contexts for Fictional Worlds. Page No-129: Psychology Press, 1998. ISBN 0415131251. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
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